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The Defensive Activation Theory: REM Sleep as a Mechanism to Prevent Takeover of the Visual Cortex
Regions of the brain maintain their territory with continuous activity: if activity slows or stops (e.g., because of blindness), the territory tends to be taken over by its neighbors. A surprise in recent years has been the speed of takeover, which is measurable within an hour. These findings lead u...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2021
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8176926/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34093109 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2021.632853 |